Periodic Verification

The process

Our expertise:

We operate on all types of equipment: tower cranes, mobile cranes or auxiliary cranes, lifting accessories, forklift trucks, lifting platforms and flying scaffolds, tail lifts and lifting platforms, overhead cranes, construction elevators, construction site.

Mission:

Check-in or reset
Periodic General Audits

Each audit is subject to:

a review of the state of conservation and / or assistance with a suitability study,
a static and dynamic test,
operating tests.

Your obligations

Order of 2 March 2004, Article 2

The head of the establishment shall establish and maintain a maintenance booklet for each of the devices defined in a) of Article 2 of the Order of 1 March 2004 on the verification of lifting appliances and accessories in order to record all The operations contributing to the maintenance essential to the proper management of the lifting devices until they are discarded.

Order of 1 March 2004, Article 2a

Lifting devices: Machinery, including those of human force used directly, and their equipment, operated by one or more operators, which act on the movements by means of service devices, of which they retain control. At least one of the functions is to move a load constituted by goods or materials and, where appropriate, by one or more persons, with a significant change of level of this load during the movement; The load being not permanently attached to the apparatus.

A change of level corresponding to what is just necessary to move the load by taking off from the ground is not considered significant and is not liable to give rise to risks in the event of failure of the load support.

Order of 1 March 2004, Annex

The following equipment is covered by the definition of lifting appliances in Article 2(a):

Winches, hoists, jacks and their supports,
Lifting pins, pull lifts, lifting jacks,
Control and interference devices,
Lifting tables, tail lifts,
Lifting equipment, goods lifts, skip,
Apparatus for transporting people in elevation such as site elevators, inclined planes accessible to persons,
Manipulators mechanically driven,
Interchangeable equipment installed on lift trucks with telescopic or non-telescopic booms.

The regulations apply equally to machine manufacturers, distributors and users. In the event of an accident, responsibilities can be sought from both the manufacturer and the distributor side and from the machine user’s point of view, the safety and training of personnel.

It is forbidden to place on the market, that is to say put on sale, to sell, to import, to rent, to make available or to give in any way whatsoever (loan, gift…) , A non-compliant machine.

The manufacturer or designer of work equipment must comply with the essential safety and health requirements listed in the Machinery Directive 98/37 / EC and the new Directive 2006/42 / EC of 17 May 2006.

It is also forbidden to commission or use a non-compliant machine.

Periodic checks on equipment and accessories

The purpose of periodic checks is to detect any defect which may give rise to a dangerous situation, but not to check that the equipment complies with all the rules or technical prescriptions applicable to them. To this end, the French regulations provide for periodic general checks for an exhaustive list of equipment. It defines its content and periodicity.

The list of equipment subject to periodic checks includes lifting appliances, construction machinery and certain specific hazardous machines (presses, waste compactors, paper cutters, etc.). For the other machines, it is up to the head of the school to define an organization that can meet the same objective.

The result of these checks is recorded in a safety register (where all the incidents, anomalies, replacements of parts are also mentioned…). This register shall be kept at the disposal of the labor inspector and all persons or bodies concerned with the prevention of occupational hazards.

Periodic checks do not replace the obligation to carry out the maintenance operations defined by the manufacturer of the machine. It is recommended that you record the maintenance operations of the machines in a maintenance booklet.

In the case of lifting appliances, periodic verification shall be supplemented by a check on putting into service or restarting. This verification ensures that the appliances are installed in accordance with the specifications of the manufacturer’s operating instructions and can be used safely. The maintenance booklet is compulsory for this type of appliance (decree of 2 March 2004).

Periodicity

EVERY 3 MONTHS

EVERY 3 MONTHS:

Lifting devices, driven by human force directly employed, used to move a workstation in elevation.

EVERY 6 MONTHS:

EVERY 6 MONTHS:

Auxiliary loading cranes on vehicles, tower cranes with quick or automated assembly, on stabilizers, lifting arms or lifting platforms for removable skips, tail lifts, lifts, construction materials, earth-moving machinery equipped for lifting, Self-propelled mobile cranes or mobile vehicles, not requiring assembly or dismantling of important parts, fork-lift trucks, pipe laying tractors, mobile lifting platforms,
Lifting equipment, powered by an energy other than direct human force used for the transport of persons or for moving a workstation in elevation,
Lifting devices not specially designed for lifting persons, driven by human force directly employed and not permanently installed.

EVERY 12 MONTHS:

EVERY 12 MONTHS:

Lifting devices not specially designed for lifting persons, driven by human force directly employed, permanently installed.
Other lifting appliances.
Lifting accessories.
Content of periodic checks:
Lifting devices: examination of the state of conservation, functional testing.
Lifting accessories: examination to verify the good state of preservation of the lifting accessory. It is intended in particular to detect any deterioration (deformation, hernia, strangulation, broken strand, number of broken wires greater than that allowed, deteriorated linguet…) or other limit of use specified by the manufacturer’s instructions, which may be Causing dangerous situations.